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Almost every suite on campus is home to some kind of hi-fi equipment, be it a boom box, a walkman (with or without speakers) or an elaborate stereo complete with the audio industry's hottest-selling gadget, the compact disc (cd) player...
...suppliers discreetly displayed their publications, a bewildering array of Bible translations and the latest wares for the compleat modern missioner. While television is the engine of U.S. evangelism, it is of no use to most of these frontier workers. A hand-cranked cassette tape player was the favorite gadget for preachers who cannot afford batteries and operate in areas that lack electricity...
Once an obscure gadget found mostly on the dashboards of high-performance cars or in the cabs of long-haul trucks, the portable radar detector is fast becoming standard operating equipment in workaday Chevys, Fords and Toyotas. By beeping a warning whenever a police radar transmitter is operating nearby, the small (as light as 6 oz.) electronic gizmos give lead-footed drivers a chance to slow down before a police officer can spot a speeding violation. About 1.5 million citizens bought so-called Smokey detectors last year, a 25% increase over 1984. This year industry sales are expected to keep...
...devoted 31 pages of its fall-winter catalog to home-fitness devices. Says Richard Williford, a Sears spokesman: "This has been the strongest-selling merchandise in our sporting-goods department this year." Among the favored items, say equipment dealers: rowing machines ($75 to $3,000 for the computerized, gadget-laden models), stationary bicycles ($75 to $3,000), treadmills ($850 to $5,800) and all-in-one contraptions, like Soloflex or Universal's Power-Pak, that act on the entire body ($459 to $4,000). The typical outlay for a complete...
...test of Del Ray's gadget in the Quincy House dining hall revealed that a few design changes may be necessary...